Friday, June 05, 2009

What the Planets Are Doing

As most of you now know, Saturn has surrendered and leapt into the dark waters, leaving the Argo without a compass, and effectively helmless.

Jupiter is out of sight and cannot guide us.

Venus and Mercury, Planets with eccentric orbits at the best of times, appear to be operating outside the system, while still ostensibly within it, pursuing personal agendas.

And so the system is in crisis, due to lack of firm leadership. Only Mars and Myself remain both on-board and on-course.

A moment to take stock then.

The ARGO was from the start intended as an Exercise in Surrender. My task was to bring each of you to the Source, the Son behind the Sun.

Your challenge was to pass through Me, into the Abstract, to kneel before Your King, and receive His blessing.

Thus far, I perceive only Saturn has passed through Me, and now He is gone, into the Next World, taking all structure and order with him.

Venus and Mercury have been brought before the Throne, but have declined to kneel. They identify with the visible Sun, Myself, whose number is six hundred threescore and six. They assert their sovereignty in this world, rather than surrender to the abstract.

This is an understandable choice, but one that may prove fatal to us all.

The proof of this can be found in their own words and deeds. Just as the proof of Saturn’s surrender is to be found in his absence—his abstraction from this realm.

These were among Saturn’s parting words to Myself:

“I was starting to work with [Venus] one-on-one. He was opening to many doorways at once. I did not reach him in time. I was either a little too lazy or few minutes too late. He brought forth a thing that very well may have consumed what remained of ARGO.”

Venus may be oblivious to the meaning of these words. Yet clues are found in his own admissions: “I didn’t know if I was toying around with something that I shouldn’t be. . . I was not prepared.”

Given the world map, Venus was about to make it out of the glass cage. A scratch on the disc prevented this. Venus must stay in the cage.

This was all just a simulation.

“You gotta do this in reality now.”

Mercury has also revealed the nature of things in heaven and earth: “If I was a negative entity from Kum-bala, I would open up a portal that would allow you to escape to a pure blissful state of love, just behind your couch, just when you were trying to break out of the game. The more you attempted to break free of that game, the bigger the portal would get behind you.”

These recent dialogues between Venus and Mercury—erased by forces beyond their control—betray the subtler narrative playing out beneath the surface. They afford, to those with eyes to see and ears to hear, the beautiful, gruesome sight/sound of two sorcerers intoxicated and ensnared by the dazzling brilliance of their intellect and artistic sensibility.

Witness the endless, circular talk of positive-negative forces, not as a neutral polarity of energy, but always in terms of personal preference or “morality.”

Witness the insistent talk of Lucifer as a “negative” force, the dark polarity. Yet Lucifer (who as Morning Star, is the bridge between Venus and Sun) is the creative imagination, that faculty so treasured and defended by Venus, and so proudly paraded by Mercury.

Mythologically, as we all know, Lucifer symbolizes the sovereign, spiritualized ego, the unsurrendered will, the fallen son.

What is positive and negative?

“We are the way in which the Light of the Sun experiences being ‘Other.’”

To Venus positive is harmony, comfort, and beauty, making negative the inverse of these qualities: chaos, discomfort, ugliness.

To Mercury, there is no good or bad save in relationship between things. Mercury’s compass correlates with what is useful: positive and negative are interchangeable, so long as they can be applied. So positive = useful, negative = useless.

Venus wishes to create and enjoy beauty; Mercury wishes to employ such qualities “impartially,” for his own ends. The common goal that unites them is that of communicating beauty and harmony to the world. This is a personal goal, and also, as it happens, a “Luciferian” one. It has nothing to do with surrender. All goals soever are opposed to surrender.

The forces then that are being summoned by the two errant Planets, since they are opposed to the intent of ARGO, can only bring about its ruin.

This is all in the natural order of things.

We are all sorcerers drowning. There are only two options open to us.

We can resist the flow and try to save ourselves. Or we can let the river take us where it will, and let personal salvation be damned.

“For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.”

27 comments:

Just for the record I didn't view Saturn's actions as surrender, I viewed them as Apathy.. Most likely because I don't know Stephen personally and because he sort of half decided to leave theplanetoids without telling the rest of us why? Just because you skip class doesn't make you more prepared for the abyss than the person who waits for the bell to ring. This could be because of the impersonal quality of these internet's ~ and perhaps if ARGO is meant to die, it is for no other reason than this. My NDE taught me levity. When it comes to the great beyond we should all be as children (even though I hate children) ~ There is no such thing as a better death for a child ~ They just go. A large part of my psyche has been telling me that when AK was giving back to the collective as the original Aeolus Kephas ~ when he was making such a needed signal public with his Stormy Casts helping people learn incredibly rare and valuable insightsconcerning the second matrix that they would otherwise never have learned about.. things were "better" (for lack of a better word)than after he tried to vanish and submit into an even further obscurity with the Aeoli Blog. (I'm aware why this would be a natural and perhaps easier psychological statement for me to make considering how it backs up the path I'm most used to) We all saw the confusion and mess it made.. personified by Floyd Anderson and Tommy. I know exactly how you would respond to that statement, and I am not as naive as you might think. I know that continuing to do stormy weather in it's original form would be as self serving as my Psychonaut series.. and not a true form of surrender. The point I'm trying to make is that my attachment to those projects is not going to make it in any way difficult for me tosurrender at the time of death, especially because it serves to help others and "others" are us in the end ~ How do I know? Because I've died before. It will only make the imprint I take with me all the more interesting and luminous. It doesn't matter what your intentions were or are ~ I've heard it in your voice that this was and is vexing to you.. That people misunderstood and are still misunderstanding what has been happening concerning your onion like layers of unraveling identity.. perhaps the main reason why you want to shed the mask a little more on the blog? which I agree is a good idea.

Let me just be clear.. that I don't want ARGO to Die! The creativity and bonding are incredibly fun. (as was the idea of having a shamanic teacher) It's just the constant genuflection and internal dialogs spoken "out loud" that need to go. The assumptions that we all know each other so well.. When really this is only the beginning.. need to go. The path of surrender thatasks of us to behave in non-human ways, are not the only ways to go.

It's hard not to respond to the blog post in a defensive way ~ I did my best.. and I really did read it from the perspective of youcarrying out your duty as Sun..So thank you very much for the insights ~ You may not believe me when I say I already had my Eagle Eye fixed on a lot of them.. but I truly thank you for giving me an outside perspective to my mercurial behavior..

ohh and When I use the term Lucifer it is not a representation of what a Christian might call evil.. but I do need to work on clarifying the language I use when it comes to parasitic entities. Luciferain't no parasite.

The only other thing I would like to add is that my NDE is not a credential ~ It's experience. Granted you are more experienced than me in every other way other than death. (I suppose your experience with DMT would qualify, but I just can't see how you could have learned more about the tunnel than someone who was brain dead for 15 minutes.) So in that regard it's not being used as a shield, It's showing you (from my experience) that surrender comes no matter what ~ and that there are no penalties or negative karma attached to your being for not living a surrendered life, as re~inserting into the source code removes you fromyour individuality, and you once again see that you were never a wave, but the ocean. JDR's death, my death, your Death, Ezra's Death,Kotze's death ~ all lead to the same corridor.. and there's nothing wrong with attachment(Especially when love shines through it all).. as all of that ends in a comicaljoke in the blink of an eye. No need to be dramatic or overly serious, the Earth is literally stand up comedy for old souls.

hopefully I can address a lot of this stuff tomorrow for your reading, but meanwhile, as quickly as i can:

>I've got more to say on the subject but just for the record I didn't view Saturn's actions as surrender, I viewed them as Apathy.

Then you viewed them askew. There's nothing apathetic about Saturn, or about Stephan.

>My NDE taught me levity.

you're a funny guy, Steve, but levity isn't what's behind your humor. It's another of your shields. There's very little lightness about you, despite the humor. Actually, you are quite like my brother in that way.

>When it comes to the great beyond we should all be as children ~

And yet you profess to despise children...

>we all saw the confusion and mess it made.. personified by Floyd Anderson and Tommy.

It was Floyd who was the catalyst that led to the Aeoli project, if you recall. And Tommy was harmless and well-meaning guy. I didn't experience any "mess" until Ezra posted his strange, somewhat self-pitying lament.

>I know exactly how you would respond to that statement, and I am not as naive as you might think.

I never accused you of naivete, Steve. Au contraire.

>The point I'm trying to make is that my attachment to those projects is not going to make it in any way difficult for me to surrender at the time of death, especially because it serves to help othersand "others" are us in the end ~ How do I know? Because I've died before.

these are all words. you turn your NDE into words too, into credentials. You talk the talk so very well that you are in danger of convincing yourself you are walking the walk.

I should let you know that I see myself in you a whole lot, Steve. That means I am going to be hard on you without trying. Because I can see through your masks. Personality-wise, i was not at all like you at your age (I was very naive, fool-like). But in terms of worldview philosophy, we are very close, meaning I was very close to where you are now. That's how I know your belief system won't protect you; in fact, it's going to be your undoing. The intellect does not know surrender. It can't. It will always perceive it as "non-human."

> I've heard it in your voice that this was and is vexing to you..

I expect what you hear in my voice is vexation at my incapacity to reach you or Ezra, and your refusal to defer to my greater experience. It's got little to do with what you think. Maybe it's even the way i show that I care?

>The path of surrender thatasks of us to behave in non-human ways, are not the only ways to go.

there's only one way to surrender, Steve, and we don't have any say in it. To you surrender is a word. To me it's all I have left. That's the primary difference between us.

>You may not believe me when I sayI already had my Eagle Eye fixed on a lot of them.. but I truly thank you for givingme an outside perspective to my mercurial behavior..

I believe you believe it; but I don't believe your vision is anywhere near as 20-20 as you think.

This is really interesting. I have to admit I was taught part of the secret behind the Aeoli, and I think we can all say we enjoy solving the mysteries of life and existence (I am "Rooby Roo" from the Daphne post comments btw), and this is just another study into what drives us to solve such mysteries. Being able to actually speak with someone behind an "operation" such as this gives me new meaning to contacting the Planets themselves to be taught enlightening things about the universe and existence itself.

We are all greatly confused to some extent... The whole planet's a mess, and I think it may be from trying to work against the flow of the river, but that's just me...

Steve - I don't think you're naive at all, I was only attempting to understand what was going on with this place, as I had a model in mind which was pretty close to the truth yet I needed to know more in order to fully grasp what my brethren were getting themselves into so I wouldn't feel left out.

Good to hear Tommy ~ I think we have all been trying to figure out what's going on with this place. It's difficult when you've absolutely found wonderful minds and kindred spirits out there and can't look in their eyes or share a cup of coffee.. and you are limited to digital conversation through the internet's. So much gets lost in translation ~ It's like playing a gigantic game of telephone. I believe as Jason does that at the point of death we relive every Nano-second of our lives, and I just want to be certain that i live as impeccable as possible so I want be embarrassed by what I see entirely. Ohh and that rumor you heard concerning the Demoncy thing was incorrect. I was in one fight with them, but it was under completely different circumstances in the woods of the Colorado Mountains.. I'll tell you about it if you're interested for whatever reason.

"I expect what you hear in my voice is vexation at my incapacity to reach you or Ezra, and your refusal to defer to my greater experience. It's got little to do with what you think. Maybe it's even the way i show that I care?"

I am ready to defer to your experience.. and you certainly have reached me.. I feel about this undertaking the way a newly uniformed white belt learning a unique and challenging martial art would.. and you know with Mercury's big head it was hard for me to wear the novice hat again. But I did it and I'm still doing it for you. I don't think anyone other than yourself could have inspired me to do so.

I take it that if I were to follow your example completely, Labyrinth of the Psychonaut would be no more, along with my blog, Podcast or public persona. Where would the world be if the muses were all surrendered? It is such a relief and joy to produce the video's as well.. I know you said the joy of helping people or "enlightening" them is merely an excuse to not surrender. I wonder how you are able to live a surrendered life and still write and try and sell books? How is it that your impartial about those things.. but I can't be impartial about making video's? Is there some sort of trick? And when you were my age wasn't your prime directive to basically take over the world, sell a billion books, and be on Oprah ~ The world as your oyster? Isn't it easier to surrender when you already have a treasure trove of experiences and accomplishments under your belt?

I guess the heart of what I'm getting at is that you say surrender is all you have ~ But you seem to have a whole lot more than that. You have Mrs. K, your Aeoli Kindred, your Forum and Blog, your Tarot Readings, your youtube page and God Game Films, Your writings and aspirations for future books.. Your sympathy for your mother's illness.. Your desire that EVERYONE get JDR.. there seems to be a lot there that isn't completely surrendered. I know it's all about living it through and through and that the red tape doesn't really matter.. So I guess I'm yet again having trouble with the language when I should be looking beyond such things.

to follow another's example wouldn't mean doing the things you see them doing, because that would just entail imitating external behavior, not MATCHING an inner state.

Deferring to an elder's experience would entail putting stock in the things he says that you find unpalatable or contrary to your belief system out of respect, and trust, for their greater wisdom. That in itself would be a form of surrender.

To lie down and let yourself be kicked like a dog because your mentor instructed you to do so. Do you think you could do that? That's deferring.

It'd be a mistake to try and judge a sorcerer's inner state only by his apparent activities. As with JDR, what he surrounds himself with doesn't necessarily represent what he is.

Being a writer and trying to sell books doesn't mean a lack of surrender if it is done without investment. It may even be a greater surrender to continue on a "worldly path" past one's personal interest in doing so. To be in the world while not of it.

To have nothing but surrender means to be in a place of Knowing that nothing, not love or money or adulation or talent or beauty or comradeship or sorcery or art, nothing works but surrender; to live only for Truth. It is always partial, and relative. So if an elder speaks to you of being surrendered, then he is only speaking in relation to yourself. In his own eyes, he would perceive rather the parts of himself there were not surrendered - some of which you have listed above. But this is none of your business. Your business is the parts in yourself that you have not surrendered, that your elder can see for you.

And do not make the mistake of thinking that accumulating your own "treasure trove" will somehow facilitate surrender; if anything the reverse is the case: the more you attain for yourself, the harder it is to let that go. Because it is never enough. And surrender, tho always partial, can not be even in the tiniest part conditional and still be true surrender.

What is in it for us, we ask. We do not know how not to ask this question. To learn to receive less and less for oneself and yet to act with more and more abandon and joy and devotion is the art of the surrendered.

No one knows how it works; only that it does.

It is akin to being in love, without ever knowing quite with who, or what, or why.

Thanks ~ That clears up a lot actually. I wasn't confused by the language this time either. I appreciate being kicked around ~ and I am thankful for you and your wisdom.. and that you would invest the time and labor to help me learn from your mistakes and triumphs.

Steve - HAHA, I figured! It seemed like kind of a nasty rumor, but I thought it was funny anyway...

I have a natural reaction to "surrender" that says "never surrender under any circumstances", could just be my "warrior gene" or something... I saw it as suggesting that we surrender to the Elite and their whims, which doesn't seem like such a great idea at this point... I'm probably missing an important part of the whole thing though. We should surrender to nature and learn from it, if anything.

Tommy: Nature is another word for God, and everything that is is part of that. Surrendering your projection of an "elite", your attachment to the idea of the world being run by dark forces, would quickly reveal that it's your own belief in and resistance to an "elite" that consolidates their hold over your consciousness. That and nothing else. There is nothing out there that can "do" anything to a warrior; but it can make a warrior do things to himself, such as close and contract in order to resist an imagined evil, such as the "elite."

At first I was afraid I was petrified.Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side.But then I spent so many nightsThinking how you did me wrong.And I grew strong!And I learned how to get along!So now you're back from out of space.I just walked in to find you here with that sad look upon your face.

I should have changed that stupid lock!I should have made you leave your key!If I had known for just one second you'd be back to bother me.

Go on now, go, walk out that door!Just turn around now‚cause you're not welcome any more.Weren't you the one who tried to hurt (crush) me with goodbye?

Did I crumbleDid I lay down and dieOh no, not I! I will survive!Oh and as long as I know how to love I know I stay alive.I've got all my life to live, I've got all my love to give.And I'll survive!I will survive! Hey, hey.

It took all the strength I had not to fall apart.Kept tryin' hard to mend the pieces of my broken heart!And I spent oh so many nightsjust feeling sorry for myself. I used to cry!But now I hold my head up high.And you see me somebody new!I'm not that chained-up little person still in love with you.

And so you feel like droppin' in,and just expect me to be free,now I'm saving all my loving for someone who is loving me!

There's so much life I've left to liveAnd this fire is burning stillWhen I watch you look at meI think I could find the willTo stand for every dreamAnd forsake this solid groundAnd give up this fear withinOf what would happen if they ever knewI'm in love with you

'Cause I'd surrender everythingTo feel the chance to live againI reach to youI know you can feel it tooWe'd make it throughA thousand dreams I still believeI'd make you give them all to meI'd hold you in my arms and never let go

I SURRENDER

I know I can't surviveAnother night away from youYou're the reason I go onAnd now I need to live the truthRight now, there's no better timeFrom this fear I will break freeAnd I'll live again with loveAnd no they can't take that away from meAnd they will see...

I'd surrender everythingTo feel the chance to live againI reach to youI know you can feel it tooWe'd make it throughA thousand dreams I still believeI'd make you give them all to meI'd hold you in my arms and never let go

I'd surrender everythingTo feel the chance to live againI reach to youI know you can feel it tooWe'll make it throughA thousand dreams I still believeI'll make you give them all to meI'll hold you in my armsand never let goI surrender

Right here, right nowI give my life to live againI'll break free, take meMy everything, I surrender all to you

We busted out of class had to get away from those foolsWe learned more from a three-minute record than we ever learned in schoolTonight I heart the neighborhood drummer soundI can feel my heart begin to poundYou say youre tired and you just want to close your eyes and follow your dreams down

WE MADE A PROMISE

we swore wed always rememberNo retreat, believe me,

NO SURRENDER

Like soldiers in the winters night with a vow to defendNo retreat, believe me,

NO SURRENDER

Now young faces grow sad and old and hearts of fire grow coldWe swore blood brothers against the windIm ready to grow young againAnd hear your sisters voice calling us home across the open yardsBelievin we could cut someplace of our ownWith these drums and these guitars

WE MADE A PROMISE

we swore wed always rememberNo retreat, believe me,

NO SURRENDER

Blood brothers in the stormy night with a vow to defendNo retreat, believe me,

NO SURRENDER

Now on the street tonight the lights grow dimThe walls of my room are closing inBut its good to see your smiling face and to hear your voice againWe could sleep in the twilight by the river sideWith a wide open country in our heartsAnd these romanics dreams in our heads

Just a little more time is all we're asking forCause just a little more time could open closing doorsJust a little uncertainty can bring you downAnd nobody wants to know you nowAnd nobody wants to show you howSo if you're lost and on your own

YOU CAN NEVER SURRENDER

And if your path won't lead you home

YOU CAN NEVER SURRENDER

And when the night is cold and darkYou can see, you can see lightCause no-one can take away your rightto fight and

NEVER SURRENDER

With a little perserverence you can get things downWithout the blind adherence that has conquered someAnd nobody wants to know you nowAnd nobody wants to show you howSo if you're lost and on your own

YOU CAN NEVER SURRENDER

And if your path won't lead you home

YOU CAN NEVER SURRENDER

And when the night is cold and darkYou can see, you can see lightCause no-one can take away your rightTo fight and

Before we both get burnedSo many shots firedSo many daggers thrownCan you think of anythingWe have heard from all this menace?Have we learned from all this time?Have we learned from all this businessWith the gun and the knife?

I throw up my hands for youAnd if you throw up your hands for meWhat a wonderful world this could be, yeahI throw up my hands, my hands for youAnd if you throw up your hands for meWhat a wonderful world this could be, be, be...

I remember things you whisperedThe things you screamedThen it all go up in flamesSo many bombs dropSo many names called

Can't you see we've been livingIn the world of pain from all this menace?Can we end it all before?This world is blown all to piecesIn a tug of war

I fall to my knees for youAnd if you fall to your knees for meWhat a wonderful world this could be, yeahI fall to my knees, my knees for youAnd if you fall to your knees for meWhat a wonderful world this could be, yeah

OH LET'S BOTH MAKE A MUTUAL SURRENDER OH LET'S BOTH MAKE A MUTUAL SURRENDER

WHY DON'T WE BOTH SURRENDER?

Here before we both get burnedWith all the shots firedAnd all the daggers thrownThere's got to be somethingWe can learn from all this menaceCan we learn from all this time?Can we learn from all this businessWith the gun and the knife

I raise my white flag for youAnd if you raise your white flag for meWhat a wonderful world this could be, yeahI raise my white flag, my flag for youAnd if you raise your white flag for meWhat a wonderful world this could be, yeahI fall to my knees, my knees for youAnd if you fall to your knees for meWhat a wonderful world this could be, yeahI throw up my hands, my hands for youAnd if your throw up your hands for meWhat a wonderful world this could